Quotes by Mirrors Children are like a mirror. They help you see yourself and all the flaws that you and your partner might have avoided looking at earlier. Virginia Clinton Kelley mirrorsmightchildren We mirror God's mercy to us when we forgive another. Virginia H. Pearce forgivingmirrorsmercy Books are the mirrors of the soul. Virginia Woolf mirrorsreadingbook Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward peace, When no one comes to take me away from myself And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle, A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection, Being so contrived that it takes too long a time To get myself back to myself when they have gone. Vita Sackville-West blockmirrorsreflection Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. Virginia Woolf essentialsmirrorsuse For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. Vladimir Nabokov phantomsmirrors My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it. Vivienne Westwood fashionmirrorsadvice For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist. Vladimir Nabokov phantomspopulationmirrors Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . . Vladimir Nabokov mirrorsordinarylying The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes. Voltaire mirrorseyereflection In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack of literal meaning, the blurred diminutive image of the acrobatic performance that so gloriously supplies the bravura ending for the next chapter. Vladimir Nabokov crazymirrorsart My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way. Vladimir Nabokov blackflyingmirrors Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer, but only that shell of a person which is seen by other people - what an airless, shallow, bald, prominent world it becomes! A world not to be lived in. As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassiness, in our eyes. Virginia Woolf glassesmirrorseye my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame Voltaire bodymirrorssoul Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror. W. Edwards Deming carmirrorsviews The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors the present state of our civilization and its profound discontents. As wide-ranging as it is incisive, this astonishing work is a testimony both to the muted suffering of millions and to the great courage it must have taken the author to set his mind against it. W. G. Sebald mirrorstakencivilization Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. W. H. Auden mirrorsuniquemen I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me. Wallace Shawn mirrorslooksway Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. Wallace Stevens crowdsmirrorsfoolish But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears? Wally Lamb mirrorsifsstories«9293949596979899100101102»
